On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 06:49 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-03-04 at 14:19, Svante Signell wrote: ... > > Maybe I don't understand. The version of xpdf I'm proposing is no > > longer dependent on poppler. So why are you talking about poppler? > > Because other packages do still depend on poppler, so we can't drop > poppler from the repositories, which means that introducing the code > back into the xpdf package itself will mean we have two (divergent) > copies of that code - with all the problems that implies.
Sorry, I still don't get it: - Which packages still depend on poppler, unless via xpdf? The ones directly dependant on poppler are not affected. - Which repositories containing poppler code are you talking about? - Which code has to be brought back to the xpdf package, causing problems? Isn't it enough to bump the upstream version and go on from there, as Adam suggested? - I did a search for reverse dependencies for xpdf (there are no build-rdeps) apt-cache rdepends xpdf xpdf-dbgsym : obvious libfontconfig1 : Breaks: xpdf (<= 3.03-11) valentina : Depends: ..., xpdf, ... libfontconfig1 : see above |octave-doc : Suggests: octave, xpdf | pdf-viewer |jabref : Suggests: gv | postscript-viewer, xpdf | pdf-viewer mozplugger : Suggests: ... xpdf, ... |xfig-doc : Suggests: iceweasel | www-browser, xfig, xpdf | pdf-viewer |xfe : Suggests: rpm, xpdf | evince, ... wiipdf : Depends: ..., xpdf, ... |vim-latexsuite: Suggests: xpdf | pdf-viewer, ... |urweb-doc : Recommends: xpdf | pdf-viewer python-scapy : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ... |ruby-tioga : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ... |python-tables-doc: Suggests: xpdf | pdf-viewer, www-browser |page-crunch : Depends: ..., xpdf-utils, ... Recommends: ..., xpdf, ... |octave-doc : see above |muttprint-manual: Depends: ..., xpdf, ... mozplugger : see above mlpost : Recommends: ..., xpdf libmlpost-ocaml-dev: Suggests:, ..., xpdf, ... |mc : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ... |jabref : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ... |libinventor1 : Recommends: ..., xpdf | pdf-viewer gworkspace-apps-wrappers: Suggests: ..., xpdf, ... |gprolog-doc : Recommends: xpdf | pdf-viewer, ... |auctex : Recommends: ..., xpdf | evince | evince-gtk | okular eficas : Depends: ..., xpdf, ... As you can see there are only four packages depending on xpdf. The rest are merely Recommends and Suggests.
